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Cresent City Kid

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17. A company can have religious beliefs?

Thu Nov 28, 2013, 10:59 AM

Nov 2013

In reality the owner is the one with the beliefs, which are protected up to the point at which they collide with someone else's. Why don't we just go all the way and let companies vote?

Here in San Antonio we had additions to our non-discrimination laws that extended protection to LGBT. The resistance made the same argument, that the new laws restricted religious freedom. They do not have the same understanding of freedom as I do. Freedom is not like a pogo stick where everyone can jump as high as they want without affecting anyone else. Freedom is like your front yard, yours ends where your neighbor's begins. Religious freedom allows you to be offended by others with different beliefs. It does not entitle you to live in a world that doesn't offend you, or to actively work to create one.

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